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Yalta Conference
The Big Three Churchill, President Roosevet, & Stalin at the end of World War II agreed that Stalin would join the fight against Japan to end World War II along as the United States & Great Britain allowed the Soviet Union to control Eastern Europe after the War. The Soviet Union agreed to allow free elections in Eastern Europe. This would establish the division in Europe between the United States (Western Europe) & the Soviet Union that would be that would be called the Cold war and last 45 y -
Truman Doctrine
Truman was a man that established that the U.S political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. He effectively reoriented U.S. foreign policy. Avawy conflict that is not directly involving the u.s -
Berlin Airlift
In June 1948, the Russians–who wanted Berlin all for themselves–closed all highways, railroads and canals from western-occupied Germany into western-occupied Berlin. This, they believed, would make it impossible for the people who lived there to get food or any other supplies and would eventually drive Britain, France and the U.S. out of the city for good. Instead of retreating from West Berlin, however, the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was a plan to help recover western europe from the war and also eastern but it had got rejected be Moscow. The marshal plan was achieved objectives of increasing productivity, stimulating economic growth, and promoting trade. -
Korean War
A conflict in the cold war where the u.s and soviet union took different sides and when this happen korea divided into north and south -
NATO pact
The alignment of nearly every European nation into one of the two opposing camps formalized the political division of the European continent that had taken place since World War II (1939-45). This alignment provided the framework for the military standoff that continued throughout the Cold War (1945-91). -
Warsaw Pact
The alignment of nearly every European nation into one of the two opposing camps formalized the political division of the European continent that had taken place since World War II (1939-45). This alignment provided the framework for the military standoff that continued throughout the Cold War (1945-91). -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The U.S tried to overthrow a communist government that failed also tried to make it look like they did not do it -
Berlin Wall
A barrier created by the soviet union to separate East and West Berlin -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
For thirteen days in October 1962 the world waited—seemingly on the brink of nuclear war—and hoped for a peaceful resolution to the Cuban Missile Crisis. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States attempting to prevent the spread of communism. -
The end of the Cold War
Fall of the Berlin wall
